Dell Cameron 🐈‍⬛

WIRED senior reporter, policy & politics

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2024-10-17 17:20:34

Exclusive: US intelligence officials have quietly issued warnings to law enforcement around the country about election deniers heightening the risk of political violence, with reports citing conversations about planting "explosive materials” inside ballot drop boxes.
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-election-denial-violent-attacks/

2024-09-27 15:24:57

My latest at WIRED: New polling shows that roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Joe Biden's star antitrust enforcer.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-chair-lina-khans-democrats-donors-harris/

2024-04-23 17:51:11

hmm
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2024-04-18 19:44:14

WIRED sent a reporter to a "constitutional sheriffs" convention.
One speaker said he'd formed a "posse" of about 150 "deputized citizens" to protect voting polls from "immigrants" and then passed out literature for other sheriffs to teach them how to form their own. #elections
https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/

2024-04-17 22:00:50

Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a bill banning police agencies from purchasing Americans' location data, has passed by the House in a 220-to-197 vote.
Big victory for Team Ron Wyden

2024-03-28 15:44:01

A broker w/ US defense ties (and execs accusing each other of fraud) tracked nearly 200 cellphones and other devices on/off Jeffrey Epstein's cursed pedo island.
WIRED lifted the data & is analyzing it (cautiously)
My latest w/ Dhruv Mehrotra:
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/

2024-03-13 12:18:44

NEW: A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse. (CW)
This is a WIRED, Der Spiegel, Recorder, and Washington Post investigation.
https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/

2024-03-06 16:39:47

NEW: State attorneys general say Meta is ignoring hacking victims, causing a drain on law enforcement resources nationwide.
There's been a 1000% increase in complaints, they say, since roughly around the time Meta laid off 13% of its staff.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-hacked-users-draining-resources/

2024-02-23 01:33:54

NEW: Leaked data analyzed by WIRED reveals the secret locations of ShotSpotter sensors around the globe, and the communities most directly impacted by the surveillance.
https://www.wired.com/story/shotspotter-secret-sensor-locations-leak/

2024-02-12 19:37:03

How many popular privacy reforms can Congress kill behind closed doors?
https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-reform-backroom-deal/

2024-01-15 15:44:05

“We must mark him now, if we had not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future of this Nation…”
William C. Sullivan, FBI intelligence chief, on Martin Luther King Jr., Sept. 16, 1963. #MLK

2023-11-27 20:32:34

NEW: Neither Schumer nor Speaker Johnson are answering questions this morning regarding widespread rumors they plan to amend a "must pass" defense bill (#NDAA) in the final hour to extend a controversial surveillance program, #Section702.
https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-reauthorization-ndaa-2023/

2023-11-22 13:42:16

#Harvard Law Review voted to censor what would have been its first blog by a Palestinian scholar—specifically, an editor said, because people “might oppose or be offended by it.”
The Nation has released it in full: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/

2023-11-20 18:46:04

SCOOP: An obscure White House program surveilling over a *trillion* US call records each year is under fire. Sen. Wyden is challenging its legality, urging DOJ to stop prohibiting him from disclosing info he says will "outrage" Congress.
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/

2023-11-16 18:02:25

NEW: A new report by the House Intelligence Committee's Republican majority blasts the FBI for routinely violating rules governing #FISA's #Section702 surveillance program, adding it's time to rein the bureau in, and force it go to court to get warrants // #privacy #security #natsec
https://www.wired.com/story/house-intellligence-section-702-reform/

2023-09-30 15:17:58

WIRED is gearing up for election season. We have a politics editor and sr reporter (x2) positions open now. They won’t be open long, so apply soon. (FYI: WIRED is a union shop rep’d by the News Guild)
https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers/job/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY/Senior-Writer--Tech---Politics_R-14335-2
https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers/job/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY/Senior-Writer--Tech---Politics_R-14336-2
https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers/job/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY/Senior-Editor--Politics_R-14337-2

2023-09-08 18:01:43

Scoop from me at WIRED on a closed-door meeting yesterday between top US intelligence officials and civil rights experts who say US spy agencies remain tight lipped about growing domestic surveillance concerns.
http://www.wired.com/story/section-702-privacy-meeting

2023-09-04 06:09:32

BFF
#catsofmastodon
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2023-08-25 03:23:33

i live to serve
#catsofmastodon
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2023-08-09 03:38:16

I am continually writing about Section 702 for WIRED magazine if there are any experts or concerned parties following me interested in bending my ear. FYI. #privacy #fisa #natsec

2023-08-06 03:35:38

she decided to keep the bandana and has bit me once for trying to remove it.
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2023-08-04 16:39:36

Texas conservatives did a racism to the tune of $1 million, soiling the legacy of a university whose suddenly retired president has also been outed as a liar. Should make a great line in her obit. #aggies
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/03/texas-am-regents-kathleen-mcelroy/
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2023-07-14 15:02:43

NEWS: An amendment requiring the US Military to obtain a search warrant before buying Americans’ location information from private data brokers will be included in the House version of the NDAA. #privacy #ndaa
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2023-07-06 06:20:44

Zuck using size as an excuse on Joe Rogan last year, saying that with billions of users, there’s no way to stop even tiny mistakes from fucking over millions of people:
Zuckerberg today saying his goal is another billion+ user platform:
#threads #meta
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2023-07-01 09:39:13

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@npub17sh…6e06 I would also just like to say that your beard is amazing.

2023-07-01 04:20:21

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@npub17sh…6e06 I love the noise.

2023-07-01 04:12:57

new pet just dropped
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2023-06-22 17:35:03

#catsofmastodon
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2023-06-22 12:15:03

Scoop: The #FBI has released dozens of new documents in an ACLU case concerning its use of Stingrays detailing the ways in which it pressures cops to keep the technology hidden from courts and defendants. #privacy #surveillance #police
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-cell-site-simulator-stingray-secrecy/

2023-06-20 04:55:10

Charlie Kirk doesn’t know the “emancipation proclamation” didn’t free slaves in states that remained in the union.
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2023-06-13 15:16:49

My latest at WIRED: A newly declassified report reveals the federal government is stockpiling troves of personal information about Americans, much of it capable of facilitating "blackmail, stalking, harassment, and public shaming." #fbi #cia #odni #doj #nsa #privacy #surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/

2023-05-23 22:49:32

this will never not be funny
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2023-05-23 16:33:41

Real kings don’t scab #wgastrong #wgastrike #1u
(pic via jerry ryan)
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2023-05-20 10:52:12

#catsofmastodon
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2023-05-18 14:37:06

New fear unlocked.
I read the other day that if you blew up the nucleus of a hydrogen atom to about the size of a bowling ball, the distance between it and the electron (which I know is really more like a cloud than an orbiting planet) would be located roughly 2 miles away. The more I thought about this, the more I started experiencing something I felt was comparable to thalassophobia, which is a fear tied to oceans, but is not so much about water as it is experiencing a vast emptiness or void

2023-05-17 18:44:34

NEW: A group of US senators led by Ron Wyden called today on the US Postal Service to stop the unwarranted surveillance of mail ongoing across the country -- saying the documented abuses recorded throughout history indicate this poses a serious threat to Americans' privacy.
USPS declined to comment:
https://www.wired.com/story/usps-mail-surveillance-letter/

2023-05-05 18:04:22

Another story from WIRED stemming from the data breach of a conservative anti-LGBTQ group trying to ban abortion medicine nationwide.
The doctors group has been working for years to conceal the fact that its medical recommendations are pegged to its religious beliefs, and that it views "nominal Christians" as threats.
Some wild stuff in here like "Christian Hogwarts"
https://www.wired.com/story/american-college-pediatrics-christian-threat/

2023-05-02 20:01:31

BREAKING: The pediatrics group suing to ban the abortion drug mifepristone has suffered a major breach. WIRED is reviewing 10K leaked files. The group promotes junk science & anti-trans views and has been labeled a hate group.
https://www.wired.com/story/american-college-pediatricians-google-drive-leak/

2023-04-28 14:39:24

yeah that’s not going away anytime soon
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2023-04-26 02:48:46

At a US hospital, a woman with a cancerous, nonviable pregnancy was told she’d need to wait in a parking lot until she started actually dying before doctors could legally treat her. #abortion
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851775/oklahoma-woman-abortion-ban-study-shows-confusion-at-hospitals

2023-04-25 22:11:13

This is a useless and self-serving mode of enforcement. Twitter similarly announced changes this year, saying it would simply “demote” tweets from accounts trafficking in overt racism and hate going forward. All this really does is conceal what’s happening from the broader world, lessening the number of abuse reports these attacks generate, while doing nothing for the actual victims, left to fend for themselves behind a veil of ignorance.
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2023-04-25 21:33:48

Twitter released some takedown stats today, circa H1 2022 (what is up with that horrendous delay?) but said it won’t be releasing a “formal transparency report” this time around.
All I can think is how funny it’ll be in a year when this says “1”
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2023-04-25 21:21:51

Assuming tremendous trust was placed in these individuals based on some notion of loyalty to one’s country, it’s clear that was never really a personal incentive, whereas money certainly seems to be, and on that basis alone, the past work on behalf of the US of at least some of these people warrants further scrutiny.
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2023-04-25 16:53:36

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“Terms like ‘race war,’ concepts like accelerationism—to go out there and create societal crises or to exaggerate them to intensify them to create some kind of culminating, purifying violence against all these threats to white identity—these really come out of the American psyche and popular culture,” says Julian Droogan, associate professor of terrorism studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
https://www.wired.com/story/tucker-carlson-fox-news-disinformation/
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2023-04-25 16:45:15

NEW: My WIRED colleagues dive deep into the global impact of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on far-right movements, from the UK to Brazil and the Netherlands.
"The ethno-nationalism of Carlson’s content resonates internationally because the online far-right is global, with communities in Europe, Latin America, and Australia overlapping, sharing spaces and stories."
https://www.wired.com/story/tucker-carlson-fox-news-disinformation/

2023-04-24 18:07:56

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LA Times now with sources "familiar" claiming Murdoch personally pushed Carlson out, citing specifically the lawsuit filed by ex-producer Abby Grossberg.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-fox-news

2023-04-24 18:00:29

Asked by Semafor if Tucker Carlson's firing had anything to do with a harassment lawsuit recently filed by a former Fox News producer -- one who'd worked on Carlson's show -- the ex-producer's attorney responded: "I have no comment on those reports other than to say that timing is a matter of physics, and as such is undeniable.”
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/24/2023/tucker-carlson-is-leaving-fox-news

2023-04-23 21:22:26

Metatext doesn’t work quite as well as I remember. Any recommendations for iPhone?

2023-04-22 01:39:09

interesting look at the decline of OBGYN services in red states, where the best students no longer want to train, and can’t even get accredited:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/21/abortion-ban-states-obgyn-residency-applications/
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2023-04-22 01:20:43

my friend said he got drunk at the rodeo and i said “more like the HODEO”
i mean it was right there so i picked it up

2023-04-20 01:21:57

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The Walsh hack was one of our most-read stories today, with more trafficking originating from Twitter than my editor has seen in a year. Streisand is back, baby!

2023-04-19 21:06:44

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"distribution of hacked material"
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2023-04-19 20:24:18

Just got permanently suspended for publishing this story: https://www.wired.com/story/matt-walsh-twitter-hack-doomed
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2023-04-17 18:22:25

ICE records obtained by WIRED describe hundreds of internal investigations into apparent misuse of law enforcement databases tied to allegations of harassment, stalking, and more.
>> https://www.wired.com/story/ice-agent-database-abuse-records/
"They have been investigated for looking up information about ex-lovers and coworkers and have shared their login credentials with family members. In some cases, ICE found its agents leveraging confidential information to commit fraud or pass privileged information to criminals for money."

2023-03-09 05:13:56

My latest at WIRED: Today the FBI admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies claimed was gathered to personalize online ads -- data the bureau would've otherwise required a warrant to obtain
Dir. Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program "some time" ago
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/